XY-Archive-Compliance
What is XY-Archive-Compliance?
About
XY-Archive-Compliance creates website archives to help customers meet regulatory and legal compliance requirements for data retention and historical website preservation. You can see how often XY-Archive-Compliance visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Archivers visit websites on a roughly regular cadence, since snapshots are more useful when they're regularly spaced out. Popular websites will have more frequent visits since they are more likely to be queried in the historical database in the future.
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Operated By | XY Archive Compliance |
Last Updated | 18 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Archivers
Robots.txt
Should I Block XY-Archive-Compliance?
It's up to you. Digital archiving is generally done to preserve a historical record. If you don't want to be part of that record for some reason, you can block archivers.
How Do I Block XY-Archive-Compliance?
You can block XY-Archive-Compliance or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
# robots.txt
# This should block XY-Archive-Compliance
User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance
Disallow: /